Is removing all meds a common hospital experience, or does this hospital have issues

[DebJ]

2. Hi Peggy. The problem is that in the hospital, 'his' doctor has no say and is never consulted.

I couldn't believe it the first time I found out that's how they do things in (at least some) wards. It's like having an ob/gyn for 9 months who is intimately familiar with a troubled pregnancy. You go into labor, and your ob/gyn isn't there. You pass on to the ob/gyn at your side the information about your pregnancy, and she says "Oh, no, that isn't relevant at all, anything that doctor said. We are going to start from scratch."

I did just call the nurse on the ward again...so i spoke to a nurse on every shift today. I mentioned that they always strip him of all of his meds and make him worse, and always say this is because for some reason the doctors orders were not sent to the pharmacy, and I want to insure that never happens again.

She told me to start notifying the hospital at admissions, and to keep calling the ward until there is no doubt everyone has the info and is applying that.

She also told me she is marking all of his records right now to NOT give him another dose in the morning, which is what was keeping me from sleeping tonight. (It's 1:36 am here). So, now I can sleep.

I told her that if he gets a second dose of Celexa, they may find they have 7' of dangerous man, 400 lbs of him, on their hands, and that he could smile one minute and then in 15 seconds ramp from zero to 200. That is very true... I saw that happen with him on Prozac... the worst of all the SSRI's he took, and I believe every news story I've ever read about Prozac... and so I think for their OWN safety no one is going to be in a hurry to give him that in the morning.

He was so out of it this evening that he didn't know what he had had for dinner he had just finished eating 10 minutes before, and that has never, ever happened to him, ever, not in decades of battling this issue. His girlfriend said he just looked totally insane, and he's not been that way...except for SSRI's...and they stripped him of his mood stabilizer that had been so very effective for so long.

But the nurse told me there are no med changes filed by the doctor after he got my message today. When I called at 8pm, the afternoon nurse told me she had advised the doctor of this, but he had been doing rounds and was only just then doing his paperwork. But it is 1:40 am, and nothing. He did NOTHING. I guess I'm driving to Maryland tomorrow.